Money Hungry

I just finished a book called Money Hungry. This book was about I girl who used to live in the projects and then moved into a nice little neighborhood. She was poor and money was all she had. She will always save up and never spend it because she is used to the life in the projects were she had no money. Know she is selling erasers, pencils and other school supplies. She usually rips people off but she makes lots of money. She will always say if you spent money then it will be gone. She is obsessed with money. Every penny she has will go straight into her piggy bank. She will always try to get a little job with her friends like cleaning people’s houses of mowing there lawns.  Her friends will sometimes not go with her to clean houses because they will think it’s pathetic. She chose money over friends so she will always ditch them for a low paid job. All in all at the end she sees that she is losing her friends so she starts hanging out with them more instead of chasing around pathetic and low paid jobs.

                In my opinion I think 13 year old girls shouldn't worry about money as much. They should try to get a good education and have fun. I understand that she used to live in the projects and she used to always worry about money because her father left them and her mom had a very low paid job. So on the other hand she might be thinking that she doesn’t want to turn out like her mom. No job, no husband and living in the projects. But on the other hand maybe she is used to being so poor that she has to save up money. But I still do think that kids shouldn’t worry about money that much. Maybe she just wants to seem more grown up. I think it’s pathetic that a little 13 year old is obsessed with money. I also noticed throughout the book she is losing her education. Her grades are going down and her friends are starting to lose interest in her. The sad thing is she doesn’t even realize that she’s losing everything for just a few bucks. It’s also sad that all that hard work, cleaning houses, mowing lawns and selling useless things is not going to support you when you grow up.

                I think that it’s the parent’s fault that she is obsessed with money. I think that because her parents made there see that it’s going to be hard to support children and herself. She got all worked up that she thinks that she is going to be homeless because she won’t have any money. Or maybe she is sad that her dad left her and by saving money it makes her feel better by knowing that she doesn’t need a husband when she can support herself. All in all her childhood should have been better and her parents ruined it.

                In real life little kids live in the streets and can’t be supported. Like her she lived in the project with almost no support. A lot of kids live in the project because of their parents.